Any good recommendation on a crash cart for a cluster room? My last
I've got a rolling cart, 15" vga and keyboard, not a big deal.
it's technically an AV cart - provides two other shelves, and
enough space for a pad or some tools, even a node sometimes.
nodes. How do other sys admins handle this? Just a simple crash cart?
Or there any other options that make life easier in the long run.
thank goodness for lan IPMI (bios, serial console redirection) -
it keeps me out of the machineroom 99% of the time. heck, it keeps
me out of the dozen other machinerooms that our ~30 clusters are in.
Note that for my head nodes etc. I do plan on having a small (4 port)
KVM in the main rack with its console and rackmount keyboard. I guess
not worth it imo - I'd use the crash cart, since the need is so rare.
I'm not trying to be cheap here but just splurge a bit and get a
solution that will make late hours of debugging a little more
palatable for the sys-admins!
ipmi ipmi ipmi. try to avoid the obnoxious nonstandard proprietary POS's
that vendors push. you want remote power on/off/reset, then serial
redirect and hopefully bios redirect too. then temperature monitoring,
and SEL access. this should be in every entry-level server IMO.
you know the vendor has jumped the shark if/when they provide xml-based
scripting and offer licensed extended features rather than standard ipmi
support...
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